Therapeutic landscapes in holistic medicine

Allison Williams

Social Science & Medicine, 1998, vol. 46, issue 9, 1193-1203

Abstract: Therapeutic landscapes are places, settings, situations, locales, and milieus that encompass both the physical and psychological environments associated with treatment or healing, and the maintenance of health and well-being. Practices from holistic medicine -- also known as nonconventional, alternative, complementary or traditional medicine -- are used to illustrate specific humanistic concepts in further examining therapeutic landscapes. In addition to contributing to a theoretically-informed health geography, this paper further develops the concept of therapeutic landscapes and the understanding of holistic medicine.

Keywords: therapeutic; landscapes; holistic; medicine; humanistic; geography (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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